You, the diverse crowd coupled with enthusiasm made it an amazing experience.

Also embedded below is the presentation itself (as i promised… )

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Forget everything you know about Windows Mobile. Seriously, throw the whole OS concept in a garbage bin or incinerator or something. Microsoft has done what would have been unthinkable for the company just a few years ago: started from scratch. At least, that’s how things look (and feel) with Windows Phone 7 Series. This really is a completely new OS — and not just Microsoft’s new OS, it’s a new smartphone OS, like webOS new, like iPhone OS new. You haven’t used an interface like this before (well, okay, if you’ve used a Zune HD then you’ve kind of used an interface like this). Still, 7 Series goes wider and deeper than the Zune by a longshot, and it’s got some pretty intense ideas about how you’re supposed to be interacting with a mobile device. We had a chance to go hands-on with the dev phone before today’s announcement, and hear from some of the people behind the devices, and here’s our takeaway. (And don’t worry, we’ve got loads of pictures and video coming, so keep checking this post for the freshest updates).

First the look and feel. The phones are really secondary here, and we want to focus on the interface. The design and layout of 7 Series’ UI (internally called Metro) is really quite original, utilizing what one of the designers (formerly of Nike) calls an “authentically digital” and “chromeless” experience. What does that mean? Well we can tell you what it doesn’t mean — no shaded icons, no faux 3D or drop shadows, no busy backgrounds (no backgrounds at all), and very little visual flair besides clean typography and transition animations. The whole look is strangely reminiscent of a terminal display (maybe Microsoft is recalling its DOS roots here) — almost Tron-like in its primary color simplicity. To us, it’s rather exciting. This OS looks nothing like anything else on the market, and we think that’s to its advantage. Admittedly, we could stand for a little more information available within single views, and we have yet to see how the phone will handle things like notifications, but the design of the interface is definitely in a class of its own. Here’s a few takeaways on what it’s like to use…

Start screen: the Start experience is completely revamped, now focusing on sets of tiles which represent links to applications or contacts. It’s a completely contextual experience which can be customized both by users and carriers, and allows people to “promote” items higher up in the list. To the right of this screen is a long, vertical list of all your apps for quick jumps. It will take some time getting used to this layout; one or two tiles per line, and that long list which goes up and down rather than left and right, but honestly — this does have some advantages. Things seems less out of reach in this configuration, and Microsoft swears that they’ll be working closely with developers to build widgets that make use of the concept.

General phone navigation: If you’ve used the Zune HD, you know what this is like. Lots of bold text on the device, lists with text cut off on the sides of the phone, and additional screens to the left and right driven by arrows pointing you in either direction. For the most part this works, though in instances like email, it feels like there’s a bit of wasted space. Everything else is super stripped down — the calendar app looks like vector line art, the browser seems to be using the bare minimum to show its content (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing), and the phone application is essentially monochromatic. On the other hand, you’ve got a beautiful and robust photo app (with pinch to zoom, as in the browser), and the Zune experience is perfectly integrated… but what did you expect?

[Via: TheOatmeal.com]

The key to successfully building these types of applications is to achieve a decoupled or very loosely coupled design. Loosely coupled applications are more flexible and easier to maintain. They are also easier to test during development. You can mock up shims (lightweight mock implementations) of objects that have strong concrete dependencies, such as database connections, network connections, enterprise resource planning (ERP) connections, and rich user interface components.

Dependency injection is a prime technique for building loosely coupled applications. It provides ways to handle the dependencies between objects. For example, an object that processes customer information may depend on other objects that access the data store, validate the information, and check that the user is authorized to perform updates. Dependency injection techniques can ensure that the customer class correctly instantiates and populates all these objects, especially where the dependencies may be abstract.

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The store-owner observed and listened to the conversation:

Boy: “Lady, Can you give me the job of cutting your lawn?

Woman: (at the other end of the phone line) “I already
have someone to cut my lawn.”

Boy: “Lady, I will cut your lawn for half the price than the
person who cuts your lawn now.”

Woman: I’m very satisfied with the person who is presently cutting
my lawn.

Boy: (with more perseverance) “Lady, I’ll even sweep the floor and the stairs of your house for free.

Woman: No, thank you.

With a smile on his face, the little boy
replaced the receiver.

The store-owner, who was listening to all
this, walked over to the boy.

Store Owner: “Son…. I like your attitude; I like that
positive spirit and would like to offer you a job.”

Boy: “No thanks,

Store Owner: But you were really pleading for one.

Boy: No Sir, I was just checking my performance at the job I already
have. I am the one who is working for that lady I was talking to!”

This is called “Self Appraisal”

(via Juned Munshi)

Windows 7 comes with a well hidden mechanism that lets you access the God Mode. Follow the steps:

a) Open any Folder and create a new folder in it. Rename the folder to:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

b) Now your God Mode folder is ready. Just enter it to see the amazing stuff. Handy shortcuts for almost every stuff you may need to do as an admin.!

My system shows that it contains 283 items!!

Well this is what I call “Kick Ass!!” !

What do you see?

The hype over the dawn of the new millenium…

The hoopla over Y2K…

The crashing Twin towers…

The wild Stock market…

The Mumbai Bomb blasts…

Riots in Gujarat…

Your amazing board result and the smile on your parent’s face…

The amazing time you spent with your loved ones…

Meeting someone special…

That crush… That heartbreak…

That frustrated day when you wanted to break everything in sight… x-(

That happy day when you wanted to hug everyone in sight… \m/

A decade gone by… as colorful as the rainbow… naah… the rainbow aint colorful enough..!!

With these thoughts in mind… with a smile on d face and a song in the heart…

Lets welcome the new year… the new decade… The time when most of us would be trodding the path of responsibility the first time… transitioning to a new life…!

Wish You A Very Happy, Successful and Prosperous New Year!!!

As products of the split between man’s soul and body, there are two kinds of teachers of

the Morality of Death: the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle, whom you call the

spiritualists and the materialists, those who believe in consciousness without existence

and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand the surrender of

your mind, one to their revelations, the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they

posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists, their moral codes are alike, and so are

their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man’s body, in spirit-the destruction of his mind.

“The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is

beyond man’s power to conceive-a definition that invalidates man’s consciousness and

nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society-a thing

which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself. Man’s mind, say

the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of God, Man’s mind, say the mystics

of muscle, must be subordinated to the will of Society. Man’s standard of value, say the

mystics of spirit, is the pleasure of God, whose standards are beyond man’s power of

comprehension and must be accepted on faith. Man’s standard of value, say the mystics of

muscle, is the pleasure of Society, whose standards are beyond man’s right of judgment

and must be obeyed as a primary absolute. The purpose of man’s life, say both, is to

become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not

to question. His reward, say the mystics of spirit, will be given to him beyond the grave. His

reward, say the mystics of muscle, will be given on earth-to his great-grandchildren.

“Selfishness-say both-is man’s evil. Man’s good-say both-is to give up his personal

desires, to deny himself, renounce himself, surrender; man’s good is to negate the life he

lives. Sacrifice-cry both-is the essence of morality, the highest virtue within man’s reach.

As products of the split between man’s soul and body, there are two kinds of teachers of the Morality of Death: the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle, whom you call the spiritualists and the materialists, those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand the surrender of your mind, one to their revelations, the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists, their moral codes are alike, and so are their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man’s body, in spirit-the destruction of his mind.”The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive-a definition that invalidates man’s consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society-a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself. Man’s mind, say the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of God, Man’s mind, say the mystics of muscle, must be subordinated to the will of Society. Man’s standard of value, say the mystics of spirit, is the pleasure of God, whose standards are beyond man’s power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. Man’s standard of value, say the mystics of muscle, is the pleasure of Society, whose standards are beyond man’s right of judgment and must be obeyed as a primary absolute. The purpose of man’s life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question. His reward, say the mystics of spirit, will be given to him beyond the grave. His reward, say the mystics of muscle, will be given on earth-to his great-grandchildren.”Selfishness-say both-is man’s evil. Man’s good-say both-is to give up his personal desires, to deny himself, renounce himself, surrender; man’s good is to negate the life he lives. Sacrifice-cry both-is the essence of morality, the highest virtue within man’s reach.

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